Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.

He may be a patriot for Austria, but the question is whether he is a patriot for me.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.

The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.

If you must take care that your opinions do not differ in the least from those of the person with whom you are talking, you might just as well be alone.

The U.S. presidency is a Tudor monarchy plus telephones.

Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

No free man shall be taken or imprisoned or dispossessed or outlawed or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him, nor will we send against him except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land.

Every country has the government it deserves.